The Daily British ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 3908. YEAR 75--NO. a7. ~ KINGSTON, Uhig L-- a ap LAST * EDITION EE - NAVAL ESTIMATES - The Stiidard of 1 of the he British Navy to Be Maintained. Garrisons Abroad will 1 Be R Reduced. Wherever Possible---Demand to Be Made on Citizens. 20.- ductions in the regular army. are car | ried too far a demand will ultimately have to be made on "the citizens "for | such as hitherto has never been con-| templated." i The army $154,155,120 vear, and the London, Fob Instead of, as hoped, showiug a reduction, the com bined estimates of the army and navy for the current year show an increase of $3,000,000, without apparently any hope of any considerable diminution in the future. Lord Tweedmouth, first lord of the admiralty, explaios out- right that the future programme of Groat Britain will depend on whether foreign powers increase their naval forces, since the government has every intention of maintaining the standard of the British navy, which hitherto has been deemed necessary for the safeguarding of national and imperial interests. The war secretary, Mr. Hal- dane, in a similar statement regard ing the army, says: 'Looking to the fature | am convinced that it is ime possible to make further diminutions in the army expenditure on & cou siderable scale unless we, first of all, roduse the nuwber of troops serving abroad." "Garrisons alwoad," says Haldane, "will he reduced whenever that can -- be safely but if estimates for 19080 total | against $155,211,830 last | war secretary estimates for a total of 155,000 men in the homa | and colonial establishments, irrespec- tive of India, a decrease of 5,000 men from last weur. The navy estimates | are 3161 JU0, against $157,057,500 | for V07-8 and provide for exactly the | same) number of officers as last year The agitation for economy has had | some effect on the shipbuilding pro-| gramme which contemplate only one | improved warship of the Dreadnaught type instead of the three expected. | The government proposes to huild one six fast torpedo boat The large armoured tected cruisers, destroyers, and number of the given, but they | £2,500,000 : | received, to-day, said "As a | thize with bear to state cruiser, sixteen some submarines last mentioned are estimated to cost 1% done, re THE SENTEM E OF STOESSEL. -- leader | sympa cannot | the Japanese soldier 1 deeply Stoessel, views," Gen, my Expresses Sympathy For the Fallen Russian General. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. Gen Nogi, commander of the forces that captured: Port Arthur, expressed sym pathy for his defeated enemy in vi "I'hroe Swallows" Irish Whiskey brief cablegram received here. On the Famous for over a century . Foon of the ne) Shut tien. Steel | Of highest standard of purity, had been convie and sentenced t ajost death for his conduct of the defen ov) Pavilteny to His A ¥ he King: of Port Arthur, the Cincinnuti Times. | Representatives of the Star sent a cablegram to Gen. Nogi, | and strikers reached a provisional a! agreement looking 25 "Three Swallows." Sir Jobn Power & Sons employers stating the fact, and asking for to the settlement statement of his views. In a reply, | of the shipbuilding strike on the Tyne SALT BED FRE 3 -------------- dion. Sas Bed 200 Feet Deep, and 300 Miles Long. ---- ------ who is on his way from Edmonton to London to interview British capital ists. 'The he has created great excitement in Edmonton. The land is unsettled, and Mr. Birdwood says il the proposed railway from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific is built, Canada can supply the world with & pam. salt. City Wednesday Noutveal, Feb, 25.~The largest salt bed in the world has heen found near Fart Murray. Prospectors were bor news save ing for oil when they came on a bed of salt two hundred feet in depth. Three hundred miles away other bor ings were being made and they found salt, It i8 the same bed. This was the statement of W. R. Birdwood, } DAILY MEMORANDA. Withor Steck Coo, Grand Opera House AT A LIVELY EPISODE Wonderland TharcAtarseot hod | SIX, COAST ON ON A COW'S evening 0 vaudeville. Independent Labor Party, Branch BROAD BACK. 1, meets, Labor Hall, 8 p.m. | --------- "Fhinocess Theatre--1 igtures : * Rasulie . i Cine," in Prison. "1 8led Hits Her Sliding on | the Brigand ot "Satan Tie Luss ger 'ying the | Her Haunches--Front Rusisers | Catch Her Hons. No, hi | at the! M3 Nusiness Qifies. | Gimty's Trousers." Song © Leaves" by S Woeiins Pittices. *'Dis chon. Theatie * sie Mig « 0 - Port Jerviz, N.Y. ely, Little Hero." THustrated Songs. (2 at) girls and three young men Tones 'to: | A TIOrIANE) a ar. eth Ja gether down a quarter of a mile hil} | "Fhe Heart of Maryiand," by Miss Vera Ofl 8 Cow s back yesterday. Interposed Holden, between the coasters and the cow was a double bob sled, but the interesting | fact remains. There was an awful smash A a Room rime. bottom of the hill. "Ove of the cow's | . Forms, all kinds, at Whig. front hoofs was worn off by the ter Dail Whig ts always on sale at rible friction; Her other front hoof was gibson pe Be Boge Market Square-- ..li¢ and she was shot to end her sui 4th Sveniag." fering. Parmer Caldwiter swears he Wh will sue the coasters for the value of his cow; the girls and fellows declare they must be recompensed for the bruises they suffered and for - their elothes, which were torn. But so good a jurist as Justice Baker, of Tremont Contre, Sullivan county, says neither suit will atand for the law does not take eognizance of what he calls "bo- vite interposition: * The coasters all live at Tromoat Centre. Just as their shod started from | the hill's erat the'cow slid awkwardly | on their course from the hill yfie. She braced her © forefect and sat on her unches; bor baeR was almost even with the swow. She could not -halt, nor could the sled, of cowse. While the girls shrieked and the young men turned pale the sled struck the cow on her eastern extreme, for the sled was moving west. It ran up its forward runners MODERN pans, decide ly viltodate. Nothing yet ePINNER SET, el TWO SALE a 'all know that I toves, St. 'Phose, 708 Wi ith , ever broting who "killed Father says he commit the, ri FRemipts For Yale-Iarvard Game i previous contests, { rinks were snapped up in | high as $50 was offered by [a pau | sibly | lar a head, {all but A $4,500 "HOCKEY. DECEIT AND FRAUD | { Being Used to Win the Hearts of --Rink Got Ail But $200 Charitable. New York, Feb. 25.--The result of] the final game in the Intercollegiate | Hockey League, last week, came as a great. surprise to the followers of the close up their pocketbooks on account | of the amount of fraud and deceit] | practised upon them by so-called des- | game-in New York. On the form' dis | titute and starving people. A goodly | the St. Nicholas rink in the | number of cases have been exposed Harvard looked to | wherein help was afforded, the parties winner, and went on the | receiving it being mui ath better off than ice a two-to-une shot, with' few takers. | indications would seein to point Three dollars a seat was what the en- i It is known that aid bas been given | thusiasts paid for the game without | where the men of the family have been a murmur, and the ghousand reserved | at work, and some with money in the | the capacity of the | bank. Homes have beefewigited in! a jiffy: As| which accessible parts have been cold | some of | and bleak. but the investigators pro- for | ceeded further; they might have] Pos: | found other rooms cosy and furnished at a dol- | The money often contributed has been | the stand- | put to the purposes of feasting and ing-room the and ground | liquor drinking: Another phase of de- | floor. The receipts were close to 34, leeit is for help to be afforded by | BOD. which is pretty. fair for a hockev churches and indiyic {uals later deelar-| game. - Of this aniount the rink got | ations made that = these contributions | about £200, a small sum be- j had not been forthcoming, that while | ing given to Yale and Harvard. they had been promised they had never [been received, Drivers who delivered | { the packages, very definitely proved | that the articles had been received and | could identify the persons to whom they had been given. Clothing. and | bedding given also reached the second-! { hand dealers. | It would, therefore, be wise that ev: ery case should be thareughly guthen- rticated and a dozen persons interview. | {ed as to records, that deserving persons should not suffer through the deceit of those who should be able to maintain themselves in comfort, if the they was used for its purpose LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. | played at a sure { sents seating graduates takers college of with 500 more spec crowded into the Wall street seals, no no 1 tators, in gallery i RE-ELECTED SIX TIMES. The C ongressn.an is Very Active. #0 money earned jegitimate Another Voice in Favor of the Poultry By-Law, Kingston, Feb, 24.--(To the There must be some mistake about | there heing opposition on the part of Kingston housekeepers to the pro- posed by-law about poultry being drawn when placed on sale have talked with many of our best house keepers here and 1 have found every- strongly in favor of such & by- law. 1 could get yards of signatures {if it were necessary, to any petition asking the favorable consideration of the council to the by-law. These are some of the reasons why these house- keepers would like to have such a by- {law in force : Editor) I fone CONGRESSMAN C. N. FOWLER, No national law-maker has been more conspicuous during the present session of the congress than Represen- tative Charles N F vler; of New Jer. | 1. For sanitary reasons Tune and sey. Not ouly is 1. resentative Fow- ly; 0 again poultry is bought and len. the chairman of the committee on} ko, cleaned and cooked found taint: | banking and eurrency which passes 4 from the decaying and fermenting | upon all financial legislation intro- stocess that has taken place in the duced in the House of Representatives, I tre il A as § B the but he is himself the author of one of taint and i icable flavor JE o en mat at the present session" of terngss of the gall "often permeates : the flesh of the fowl and is neither congress abd one that is much the op- tizing health posite in theory of the Aldrich hill A lu dso Many which has been introduced in the Un- a housekeeper with Aneflicient help, or | ited States saute, Congressman no help at all, hesitates to buy poul- | Fowler, who fifty-six years of age try as often' as she would. like hecavse 2 hee reelected to congress six * + bas heen : re 3 i tof the added bother of preparing the times. He is a republican and at the] | fowl for cooking. last election this authority banks | } ; i ad In these days of ghs ranges and banking defeated his democratic opponent hy only a few hundred votes, {also the difficulty of getting on § p § Pi . | the refuse after the fowl is drawn. In { Places where this by-law has. been in on ' there is of rid ------------------ to. | {| mands that | tion iting public {and | years } 3 MIND Situation Regarding 4 the Congo Assumes Dis- quieting Aspect. KING - CHANGES The charitably disposed are urged to] i As King Leopold | such circumstances find any one to form a new minis. try, it is pointed out the ministry's] sary, to could not under Feb of Brussels 25.~The situation in the matter the annexation to Bel- giam of the Congo Independent State again assuming a disquieting as resign is Probubilities "Toronto. Ont., Feb. 25, Ottawa Valley and Up- per St. Lawrence (10 a.m.) -Fresh to strong winds, milder with snow to-night. turning in some localities to sleet or rain. resignation woald mean elections. thas} would be bound to t turn of a majority most hostile to the! king The Petit Bleu, while admitting that | there had been exchanges in the last | few days between King Leopold and Premier Schollaert on the question of | annexation, savs they have not re- sulted in a settlement of the matter, owing to inability to agree on special works to be executed out of the rev- enue from the special fumd and denies | that a ministerial crisis imminent | pect = It is said that King eopold has tak- len back all his promises and now de- the special fund, which the crown domain, be control and not un- as it was or- {was to replace placed under his der that of parliament, iginally agreed ™ In addition be asks that $50,000,000 be plaged at his disposition to carry out various projects It is understood that the govern- {ment is firmly resisting these demands | and is determined, if it becomes neces is 1 !vinee | lie. Referring to the "Cercle | Coeur," he said. members might ploy a jgame of cards, Those who opposed isuch games were like those had perucified the Saviour--they considered it a grievous sin to eat without 'first washing their hands, might have been French Catho- | ALMOST A YEAR »O tena } Sacre {1s the Sentence Imposed on Italian Minister. ~The senate, sitting justice, last even verdict of guilty of Public lastrue- | of misappropria- | funds while in ollice, and sentenced to eleven months twenty days' imprisonment and to pay a line of 850 and the costs of the trial." He interdicted from holding for four! Rome, Feb as a high court of ing, returned a against ex-Minister Nasai, who DOO OO O accused he was BABIES WANTED. also office Chicago Minister Wants Them to Come to Church. Chicago, Feb. The {A. Earl invites babies especially ithe Belden avenue Daptist church, and | {has made every preparation for their | comfort, even to providiig nursing | {bottles and the to keep them quiet while their mothers are listening | ito the sermon. The scheme inaugurated by the | Mr Karl is an inpovation so far { Chicago is coneerned. The preacher {hopes to have a dozen to. thirty bab- jes present every Sunday. One of the church parlors has bee was public OV OOOO oO John | to Rey on - POOL Spoken Of As Greedy Vulture. Winnipeg, Feb. 25.---Stroug state- ments were made by Archbishop Lan- {gevin in a sermon on Sunday. He re- ferred to the fight of the clergy in! France against that "greedy vulture, Free Masonry, which has obtained such a hold in England." He believed it had chosen an ill time ta ignore the pope when monarchs, n- cluding the king of England, wera | planning to visit his holiness. | 1 Quebec had seen its duty to send [fitted up as a nursery. It is preside al 200,000 immigrants to Manitoba in- [over by forty young women, who will | stead of the United States, this a in relays at each service, IMPORTANT CHANGES | Proposed in Connection With the Public Schools. ---------------- » hike Rev. | wy OO Pe, as | YO } { O oc 000+ OO | | bably if the province warrant jt trustees and schools in developing the advanced work In brief, township high aimed at, bringing the high training to the doors of the rural resi- dents Toronto, Feb. 25.---Exit the public increased finances of the | school continuation class In its place will follow the fifth class, taking up in rotation the pres- junior high school work I'he entrance examination as of demarcation between the public in assisting rural schools are ent school | | | | a line and force, and the fowl come on the mar- |ket drawn and trussed, the house keepers would object very strongly to | A Dangerous Lunatic, Fit Only] -- to take he burden of clean- | For Asylum. ing all the poultry they used. In- | New York, Feb. 25 --llarry Thaw |deed in such places pouitry will searce- | geoms doomed to spend the rest of his ly sell at all if put on the market un- | life in an asylum for the insane. drawn. { Alicuists who have examined and ob-| One has only to served him since he was committed to [of drawn and trussed fowl (and there | Matteawan asylum are convince { that are several in Ontario) or better, 'live { is a paranoiac, and as paranoia is in a> place where such markets are a progress.ve disease, it would appear held, to be convinced that such al that nothing short of a miracle can condition of affairs is a step forward intervene to secure his freedom in civilization--ELIZABETH SHORTT. "MAY PARALLEL C.P. R. THAW MAY STAY THERE. sco such a market he (Engineers Surveying Road From Brandon to Calgary. eo des f Winnipeg, Feb J, J. Hill has preparativos for this scheme spread: hundveds-of engineers glong the twithdrew the force-beeause of the stretch of country, fourteen hundred | pression. He owns large sections of miles from Braddon to Calgary, and |land in the three provinces, which he ie said to be preparing to parallel the | has owned for four years. His head: SPR system throughout that quarters are said to be established: at Hy Medicine Hat, lines radiate far Two years ago Hill made north to Edmonton. dis- where elaborate The 'American officials, however, re fused to recognize this. It 3s understood that Mr. Pope in tends to enter a complaint at = Wash ington against the illegal 'exagtion. me en May Have A Match. London, Feb. 25. match between Tommy Burns and Ta Johnson, England, is quite probable, Burn has just deposited $2,000 ig nse | to a purse Phat has been © When interviewed he said: I} would | like to fight Johnson here, where 'the! people have been very good to me. We shall see mow if Jobnson is anxious to meet me." Buras aatie- pates that il the mateh is made betting in Awerica will Le two one ou Johnson. -------------- The low fare proposition of Atiors| ney Ba , said to represent Wind- Montreal and other sapialista, | in an-atiempt to secure a hew three tof street railway franchise in De t hes been turned down by city cotmcil commitiee. MISSION TO JAPAN. United States Treasury Enriched By $12.15. Ottaway, Feb. M.A curious cirenm- stance has transpired in convection with the Lemicux mission to Japun, When the mission left Japan to re turn to Canada Mr. Lemieux, heing in a hurry, leit by the Canadian Pacilie steamer amd the northern route, as the more expeditious. Madame Le mieux and Joseph Pope, however, took the southern route, by way of San Francisco, And before the party "§-- Madame Lomieux, Mr. Pope and Mr. 's secretary--were allowed to land lin San Francisco they were obliged to the head-tax. To be precise, they had to pay $4.05 each, the United States being euriched to the extent of $12.15, The levy was made in Yokohama. Mr. Pope had to make the payment |! when buying the tickets, and was given to understand that they would not be allowed to board the steamer without the receipts. Avart from the diplomatic status of the party, aud the fact. that Mr. Pope was returging irom Bes tintin a character in which the Canadian | Cross to Ble Sold only ot Gibson's 'Red Store, Drug Budd truth i the report that ir Henry Campbell-Bas- | classes will be perpetuated, and J "| butter the | the | "Gieorga Washington Tolley" made by | high school will be abolished. Special inducements will be given for the fifth class public school work, and the present grants to continuation pro- Such is understood to be an im- portant feature of the educational leg islature by Hon. Dr. Pyne, minister of | education, at present 8 | 2 2 its session | i | | As Issued By Archbishop Gauthier DEAL \ BLACK MAGIC For Guidance. -- | are the rules and re |SOOTHSAYERS ARE VERY) observed during the BUSY IN LONDON. { Lent, in the arch- -- LENTEN REGULATIONS, The lollowing gulations to be conung season of diocese of Kingston All days within oX« Pp ted, are fast days on which one full meal is allowed with collation or partial weal in the evening Ihe infirm, those under twenty-one ears of age, women mm pregnancy infants, all who are employed [ants, crystal gazers and labor, and those who are en-| 'The police prosecutions feel sled by age, are exempied from | three years ago caused law fasting there- [stampede from the luxuriously take their usual number of meals {nished temples of mystery bs day in Lent street, Fear of police law of abstinence prohibits - t however, has died away, and and all are bound [opening of the Lond completed their jdabblers in the ocenlt | {lished themselves we wer- |ionable West End {ord Circus, within minttes,« no fewer In- and the Lent, Sundays 6 OOCCOVO0OOO0VOOO0K i Metropolis is Sufferine From vasion of Clairvoyants Crystal Gazers. The West End of again gvercun by an army a London is or of clairvoy soothea of nursing at hard t a tempora oid of and may, } fore ; Bc every Ihe tain kinds of food; iy it seventh year of age Jv virtue of special _indult, mit the use oi flesh meat on all Sup- days at every meal, and also at the | { principal weal on all Mondays, Tues-!sets of sandwich boards {dave., Thursdays and Saturdavs, ex- advertisements of various cept Saturday in Ember week andlants and crystal gazers can be coi Holy Saturday ed, and the advertisement colo We permit the use of eres milk, of the newspapers; "Pw and cheese on all days during | the weekly periodicals, indicate {Lent at both the principal meal and business ix flourishing the collation, to those who come un- From Wales comes the der the law of fasting; to those who police prosecution" of a | are pot bound to fast we permit the]gxercised an extraordinary {use of the same quality of food atiover the miners of Lianelly | every meal. to her predictions of coming disaster AMhere it is not convenient to take Jgedres of miners refused to enter | the principal meal at noon it is law- {mine at Trinwara. The fashiopable | {ill to invert the order, and to takelclientele of the West End dealer in| a | the collation at noon time, and dinner | fatyrity is similarly under the spel! {in the evening. Cases where the railway companies tb Those who are exempt from the pre-§aru asked to change the date {cept of fasting can partake of flesh fyieket because the intending passen- meat at every meal during the dav, |owr-had been warned by a clairvoyant | when by special indult flesh meat isingt to travel on a certain day or by | permitted at the principal meal. a perticalse boat are constantly oe No one i= permitted to use fish and | yrring.. West Kod jewellers flash meat at the same meal, wheths fp v0 axperiences of "the growing on Sundays or week days, within |fiuence of 'the oceult. "The opal { Lent * 5 idered stope of | Lard and other fal recdered fron Jung non nnd o in {any kind of meat may be used in the ration of all kinds of loods { which are permitted | Lent begins on Wednesday, March h. 1 5 interier cer th no whe have A one le slreets the space than =x bearing again in At of differe i 1 « neva i | more that story. of the palmist who influence Owing vg a also has a tain stones would have an evil in | w fluence on their particular case. pust not wear sapphires warped we againgt them." i the sori] of remark heard in the jewelers The fashionable West End ph cian, too, can cite from his experience | eases where the force of suggestion | resulted in a serves patient I Am Going--Aze You? To the odds snd ends sale, Wilkin- son's old stand, Wellington = street | Thursday and Friday. 1 | result in the [90000000000000000 flavor, {the sap of the Maple Tree. Jedd the | Modern Hasidence, Le RO! San resdence, buildings. tS "Hares sentence of three wot «Hin order to be omen, bat jewellers are frequently (oid (of the coat he would have by their feminine customers that cer [brought heck to Kings tor COQOO NEW GOODS SPRING and SUMMER ARRIVING DAILY Stoacy's New Dress Goods, OOOO 00 OOOO OOOO OO0 OOOOH 00 » OOOO New Silks, MO New Muslins, New Wash Goods, FOOL 000 New Laces, New Trimmings, New Embroideries, New Dress Linens, New Ready-to-wear Garments, etc. Come TO-MORROW and see all the have for your choosing. pretty things we STEACY'S xX ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. "Phone, 877. 27 Princess str eet " "JUST RECEIVED A small quantity of PURE . MAPLE SYRUP The kind that has that delicious because it is made from Jas. Redden & Co. Importers of Fine Grooeries, | Magnificent Properties For Sale folly wood: Walks, etc Conch nouse, RINGWOOD, ali Water front 12 acres beaut Gardens anservatory ouse, Stables, Wash-bouss, "foo e, ec Fin site fn Caneda FLAWN, handsome spacious subure ieprevements, outs ete, & Acres CRO oye and £rounds "WIFT'S REAL TATiS and Henin Aganiy. ( Not Be Charged larke will Prisons Hunter's Fhe ¢ wh EY for carrying nt Springfield Mas with the thely to Iw pont, 1 i, fonded revolver har ge a bred not he" done Mr. Hunter Mi "Dh, {cured his cont, wid = not antious Mme Xo press the charge. * Addressed Engineers. Gill, last night, delivgtiong Prof most interesting address mar ne enginesrs, in their | Most res] \ weet. He